John in back in Bolivia 4-6-09

Well i did write another lettter but i had to change Internet places so i will rewrite
everything.
Well lets start from Thursday. They tell us Thursday we can take all day to say
goodbye to all the converts and so elder stewart came to my area and he said bye to a
couple people and we went back to the house and figured out that we needed to be in
the offices as soon as possible. So we went to mcdonalds for the last time for the rest
of our mission. And they said our flight was that night. But then we were in the
offices for a couple hours and said our flight is not till tomorrow. So they take us
at like 830 at night to a really nice hotel where I think the church leaders stay when
they come. So that was fun. Well then Friday happened. We get up and go to the
airport at about 1030 we get there. Our flight is at 1240. so we check our bags and
everything and had to pay some overweight fees and stuff but we got our money back so
that’s fine. So we were waiting on this guy helping us out for a little bit.
After we had to run through security stuff and we went to imagration and it was
like 1225 we were almost through immigration and we asked a helper lady about our
flight and she called and told us it just left early. So we get kind of mad and
have to go back and do some more paper work. And call the leader guys that our
helping us.(they weren’t too happy this day)(it wasn’t our fault either) anyway they
come back president maynes chews these guys out through the phone. So they book us
on another airline for that night. So we waited in the airport alllll day till
about 1030 at night I think. Finally we get on the plane and get to Bolivia.
Sat next to some german guys which was pretty interesting.
Then we land and president maynes is waiting for us at 3 in the morning.
(he is amazing) he and his wife take us back to his house and we start talking
about what has been going on and where is everyone in the mission.
They invite us root beer floats. They told us they had the root bear in the
Beer section of the grocery store. We slept in his house and woke up and ate
german pancakes. Which were sooo good. After that we had interviews with president
he tells me that we need to be examples here. Because there has been a lot of
problems lately. He already made elder cope and stewart zone leaders and he tells
me im in this area in Montero for only 5 weeks then im getting changed.
It’s the worst zone in the mission right now. So he told me I have to make it
better in 5 weeks. So im with elder Rojas from peru. He is a pretty cool guy he
has the same time as me. He just kind of gotten lazy lately I guess.
But we will see what happens this change. Well lets take a break from me.
Brooke your baby is awesome. I enjoyed the pictures. And from the sound of it,
it sounds like a big baby. And I wonder who would have gave him the extra extra
white skin? Haha. I saw a baby the other day that was 9 months old and he was huge.
That’s how old your baby will be when I get home. So that was pretty weird. I do
complete 15 months this week. Which is pretty weird to think only 9 more months.
But im finishing in my first mission so its ok. Conference was really good.
Saturday I didn’t get too much out of it. The firste session I didn’t get to see
except the new apostle. And the later session we didn’t go. And the priesthood
session I was pretty tired because I was going on 4 hours of sleep and the meeting
finished at 10 o clock(we had permission to watch till that late) so I came home
and crashed. But im all good now. This week im going to start getting the area
better. President maynes has been really stressed out lately. He had to put some
really young guys as leaders. There are people who only have 3 months in the mission
being trainers or zone/district leaders. That’s why everyone is being disobedient.
I don’t know what he is going to do with me next change. O yaw hats funny about this
area is that it is about 10 minutes down the road from my other area. I always
wanted to see what it was like here and now I know. But I should be going out
somewhere in the jungle I think next change. There are only 100 or so missionaries
here so there are like 4 people in zones out in the jungle. So president is happy
to get some more. More missionaries are coming I think in about 3 weeks. A bunch
from the lima north mission I think. O ya you remember my old companion elder parra?
I was with him for 3 months before I left. He is in my zone. He is right next to me
actually. So it was really fun to talk to him. And im going to try and see my
trainer today. Elder walker in peru was teaching the mom of elder parra so its
cool to tell him what was going on. And the slang terms I learned over there.
So everything is going well. You notice that the letter is longer? Cause I
finally have my hour to write again haha. The only thing is the internet is
pretty slow. But I will get use to it. I think I might send some stuff home
next week so that I don’t have that much weight in my luggage anymore. Its
hard to get use to the money system again. But im happy cause now I get double
the exchange rate and everything is cheaper. And I get to eat all the old snacks
I liked. But anyway my wrist already hurts. But that’s all that’s going on. Next
week I will write more. And I think I answered your questions. But brooke
congratulations and I love you. Its kind of weird im an uncle now but im fine
with that. Im really happy to be back here again to be with this people.
They are way more humble. Ya I don’t have any nice house to go in now but the
people are nicer. It has down poured rain evey day since I have been here and
my area is pure dirt roads so that gets pretty interesting. Jumping around
puddles all day. Anyway thanks for writing. I love yall a ton. And hope
everything goes well this week.
Elder Cheesman